Use of Virtual Reality to Reduce Morphine Consumption in Adolescents Undergoing Scoliosis Surgery

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2023-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The objective is to evaluate the effect of the association of virtual reality sessions with usual management on the cumulative consumption of morphine equivalent post-operatively in adolescents aged 13 to 18 years who have undergone scoliosis surgery.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Toulouse
• Treatments: Analgesics

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient between 13 and 18 years old, i.e. the age to use a virtual reality helmet according to the manufacturer's recommendations.

• Patient with an indication for idiopathic scoliosis surgery.

• Free, informed and signed consent by patients (or parents/parental guardians) and the investigator (no later than the day of inclusion and prior to any review required by the research)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient undergoing surgery for neurological scoliosis.

• Impossibility to use the VR helmet (blindness, eye infection, helmet wound, epilepsy, psychiatric or cognitive disorder incompatible with VR).

• History of adverse effects while wearing an VR helmet (nausea, vomiting, headache, visual disturbances)

• Patient with a contraindication to the use of morphinics

• Patient whose both parents benefit from a legal protection measure (guardianship, curatorship, safeguard of justice)